Single clutching okay?

If you're a new driver, and I assume you are, you may want to learn to shift PROPERLY whether double clutching or floating, because eventually you will be in a truck with a good transmission and it will not shift like that! Just food for thought.

Think about it like this: If you learn to do it properly, you will be able to drive nearly any truck in the future, if you don't learn, you will only be able to drive trucks with worn out transmissions. You'll feel pretty silly on that next road test with a future employer when you cannot shift his truck without grinding it all to..........

 

Wish i knew about this single clutching, would have saved me a few slaps to the back of the head for grinding gears. lol. Maybe you should listen to the people here when they say you shouldn't single clutch, we might know a thing or two about it. And for the person that said single clutching is like floating it back into gear, please explain that a bit more on how that happens.

 

when you upshift try double clutching without giving gas in between.Press clutch put in neutral,leave clutch,press it again and put the new gear,

 

I've had to blip the clutch to get out of gear sometimes....depends on how beat to he** the truck is...but I float gears 99% of the time...or thereabouts. Never learned to double clutch...is that a requirement in schools?

 

It is a requirement to pass State CDL test.. or so I thought it was.. Definitely a requirement in schools.

 

If you are single clutching you are either clutching it out or in....what ever one you are not clutching you are floating the opposite side of things. When you push down the clutch and shift it out of gear the input speed is the matched to the gear you are in, if you dont release the clutch and push it back down all of the speed needed to match the input and the next gear is based on what you do with your right foot.

It is in some States others it is not, schools definitely teach and encourage double clutching.

 

you should probably read his original post, he is pushing in the clutch to take it out of gear and keeping the clutch depressed to put it back in gear.

 

I think you should re-read my post as well especially the part I put in bold, it specifically addresses that fact.

Point is he is either floating it back into gear with good timing and speed or there is a hell of a lot of grinding going on.

 

Cmon man, lets be a professional about this. Shoulda learned that in school anyway. Not sure how you passed the CDL test clutching like that. Anyway, you don't just give up and go back to doing it the wrong way because it's a little difficult. Keep practicing.



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